Flytrap



J. A. MACK July 17, 1923.

FLYTRAP Filed Abril 22, 1922 JOM/ab Nac/s;

rammed July 17, .41923.

y JOSEPH A. MACK, or MIN'rUnN, coronario.

` FLYTRAP. y

Application filed April 22, 1922. Serial o. 555,982.

T illecito/mit may concer/m Be it known that I `JOSEPH A. MACK, a l citizen of the United States of America, re

siding at Minturn, in county of Eagle and` State of Colorado, have `invented. certain and useful Improvements in Flytraps; and

I do declare thefollowing to be a full, clear,`

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to malte and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which formy a part.

l of this specification.

This inventionrelates to fly traps and has special reference to a Hy trap of .large capacity that can be cheaply made andvwhich can -be conveniently emptied.

It has become increasingly apparent in late years that the common house and stable fly is one of mans most dangerous enemies as it carries disease germs and deposits the same on food andin placesy from which it readily obtains entrance into the system of humans and animals. Besides the danger from' disease which the iy carries, it also causes an enormous amount of annoyance and suffering.

In order to reduce the danger and annoyance due to iiies, a consistent effort is being made in many places to trap them and for this purpose many different kinds of traps have been invented and are offered for sale.

It is the object of this invention to produce a fly trap that can be made `almost entirely from wire screen and will therefore be very light. It is a further object to so de` sign my trap that it can be readily made and easily assembled and to provide it with means by which it can be co-nveniently and quickly emptied when it is vfound desirable to do so. r

In order to mo-re clearly describe my invention, I shall have reference to the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows a sidefelevation of my imroved trap in assembled relation parts belng broken away to enable the structure to be better shown.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. l, but showing the trap in position for removing the iiies.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on line 3 3 Fig. 1. n

Fig'. 4 is a detail on an enlarged scale showing themanner in which the entrancev to the trap is formed, and

Fig. 5 is a section of a fragment ofthe trap taken on linef, Fig. 1 andshows' how the cover is notched to provide space for the inwardly projecting edges.

The same reference numerals will be usedy to designate the same parts throughout the several views.

Numeral l represents a baseupon which my trap is built andmay be a piece of board of suitable size. The body `2 of my trap consists of a. piece of woven wire screen, such as is usually employed as window screen, which is bent into a substantially cylindrical shape. One end is provided with a bottom 3 which may be made of a `piece of screen or a piece of sheet metal. The edges of the screen cylinder are frayed so as to produce ashort length of parallel wire ends 4 and 5. The

ends 5 are bent backwardly in the manner` shown in Figures 3 and 4, and the ends 4 are arranged in substantially parallel relationv toends 5 and are spaced therefrom a short distance so that aspace is provided through which the flies may` enter the trap. The ends 4 and 5 form what may be termed a. gate which permit the viiies to enter but which prevent them from leaving the trap.

I provide a fee-d pan 6 underneath the screen just inside of the entrance so that the odors therefrom will serve to attract the iiies and to induce them to enter the trap. One end of the/trap is closed by a pan 7 which has an inwardly extending flange 8 around its inner edge: This pan is held in place on the cylindrical trap member 2 by means of hoolrs 9 or other suitable means. Extending through a centrally located hole in the bottom of pan 7 is a handle l0 to the inner end of which there is attached a circular disc 11. When the trap is set for operation the disc 11 occupies the vposition shown in Fig. l but when it is desired to empty the` trap the operator grasps the handle 10 and l ceive the edges 4 and 5. When the flies have been gathered into pan 7 the hooks 9 are released Vand the pan is removed in the manner shown in Fig. 2. The pan 7 can then be carried by means of handle l to whatever place it is desired to dump the flies when the cover disc 1l can V be moved backwards and the flies dumped out,` after which the pan l1 is again attached to the ,body@portion `2` in the manner shown in Fig. l, and the rod pushed inwardly until disc ll reaches -tliei` 'tainer, ay pan-like member secured to the position shown when the tray is ready for use. i f

F rom the above it will be apparent thatl' haveproduceda fly trapthat canbe cheaply made that will be of light weight `and which' canbe' easily and conveniently emptied of contents which vis a 'veryimportant con-py sldera-tion as it often happens that the'trap must be emptied daily or oftener. Vith the arrangement devised vbyme'theiiies can be conveniently carried in the vcovered 'pan' 7' and transported to any desired place where V,they lmay beii'nrnersed ina liquid beforethe pan is openedor the pan'opened over a lire.

l I claim' as new 1s:

11;' A lytrapfcomprising 1n combination, a

Havi'no now described my invention what cylindrical 'container -of `woven wire` fabric having one end non-removably'secured thereto, an entrance port in the surface of said cylinder said vport comprising two parallel inwardly projecting rows of wires. `A pan secured removably to the other end of said containenfa handle projecting through the bottom of the pan, a disc secured to t-he'hane `dle =within the container and adapted to be moved towards the 'panb toform af'cover fthere'foi Y v2. In a fly-trap 'comprising inv c0mb1na' tion a base, a cylindrical container orn woven other end thereofaand removably held in place thereon7 said pan having an inwardly projecting annular ange,k a handle eXtending through said pan and into the container, and a ldisc secured to the inner end of the handle and adapted to cooperate with said angeftorform a cover.` l

3. Ink a'I ily-trap comprising in combinationV a" base, a cylindrical container of woven wirefabri'c secured to said base, an entrance port 'extending "along said Container 'near the base, said port comprising two rows of spaced inwardly projecting wires adapted to permit'the ilies to move inwardly into the container but not outwardly therefrom,` an endmember secured to one end of thevcontainer-,' a pan like member secured to the container, a disc secured to'theinner end of the handle and adapted to cooperate with said flange to form a coveig and a'feed pan adapted tobe placed on'said base and having its upper sideopening against'the screen cylinder.

In testimony whereof I liix vmy signature;

VJOSEPH A. Mioie@ i 

